New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-05

Higgins grows fat on opposition.
tho Mugvump Is music in his ears
PERSONAL.

Tho Rev. Dr.. Rainsfori, rector Of ST. Georgos, wa
last week at Newport nIr quiet vacation
Mrs Aimed e. Sheldon, of New Haven, has Yale
dipIoma dsled l7GA 1t was ~ that year Issued 10
her great-er andfather, Hezehab Ripley, ana pears
the names of President Thomas Chap ana the Rev
Messrs Benjamin Lord, Thomas Rngsies, raHa ma
Whitman and Noses Dckis IN mch ,ef. Oh me .o'E
Cornoratjou There were twenty eight menioers IN
the c:i.s OF 1764 and Mr. Ripley, who diea In io""'
was the last survivor.
Mr. j. W. Gladstone, now visiting Aewpof',s
nephew of the British statesman
Sir william Fftxherbert, Speaker OF the Les's'aus
council of New.zealand, who has been visiting THIS
c, u,rrry sailed fer hciue few days ago Ho" o"''
trauc,sco He wont to Hew-Zeaiand forty-fve Years
ago and was one of the founders Of thai prosperous
ami powerful colony
Camp meeting John Allen once chaplain OF tne
Maine Legislature, and day prayed that the Eggs
Iaffs m'stt be en,ic: to ~coudense tifeir uenpera
tmus ard step when they had stt through
t..,I prrrss ~ rc,,m'sa In tia movement for
rnonumcnt TO Jut SEWER, tie fr>r Governor OF Ien
nrssee His grave is in lonely spot on the "s tSa
Of MI j. ": walker, ,.n near 'he "'''" 'A'
The late william Barber, OF Streetsv'e' on''' ina'''
tho first paper In Canada.
Lrd Dysart has left Toronto for the West.
Professor Albert Hardness, of Brown University,
Is III Saratoga springs
ayfchigan people" says "Dctrot Evening Journai'
writer shave taken so much interest in the rapid
advancsment of Miss Alice Freeman, the presioeh'
Of wellesley College, that they have rather taken
a1n,ss her reported engagement to Professor George
H. Palmer Of Harvard Co leee One paper even goes
30 far as to suggest that Professor Palmer shouio
resign his position In order to allow Miss froon""
TO continue her work Al Of this feeling doubtless
ortuinates from tho fact that these good people 90
not anow anything of Mr. Palmer, his POSITION "
Ria work one afternoon last october dropped In
nm MIR Palmer at his rooms In Hollis HAL MS
quarters were cosey in the extreme: hut misseo
bright face and cordial welcome which ha" a."as'
been mine when, o college boy, oh'ei'u "
,n,essors ouiet home on Garden-st, about stones
throw from the old elm under which "a'nneIoh
took command OF the American armies. Ts. raimor
IA, been ton much OF an Invalid to allow hersen
uc, society but the students who took her husoaho
nbloso nv electives were entertained two or three
ar n time I'm a way that made the Palmer none on'
NJ the brightest Of Cambridge memories hhtor W .
Pamers death Mr. Palmer moN ed o,es W ,onu,i him
buIIngs and 1t was In tnese rooms .nA] Il Sa \. On
He talked about some artle % winch no n sar .Tbs
IRE airing FOR the subject OF s,en oe ia iy been
gathered into a bood. under me w :" 20 "a nae
FducatIon' In this work MI ia mer NV ,so -, ths
uH statttics rer ared by the dean OF Hsrs ar
Cnere MIR pa mer also had nlnch 70 say @s.
corr e ca kMne he annvnnred that tho father VINO
gavo hIs son more than 81 600 q year =. psimsTs
was doing the YOUNG nan an in!d h osonSy and his
r,ync,ple a. that he T. not there TO tach young n
what to think but how 70 ,ninh'
rxConcressman Frank II. Hnrd arrived Honi
Europe ON the Elbo Tuesday. lie toio i"
rcporter that he he'd left simon Cameron as inc s''
of Andrew Carnegie that Mr.: Cameron SnrSre miles
day Of travel. and would arrivo nero VA 'A'
which IA expected sunday